Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Various fast scout planes of high speed and unusual climbing ability have been said to approach a helicopter in their vertical climb but no one of these machines, no matter how powerful its engines, has been able to leave the ground at flying speed of less than 45 to 70 miles an hour. A large field is, of course, necessary for this type of plane, and in the aerial mail service for example an open expanse is often difficult to find...
...York's total took a climb yesterday with one more large subscription of $100,000 reported from George F. Baker, Jr., '99. Other subscriptions included $28,000 from Alexander M. White '92, $25,000 apiece from C. N. Bliss, Jr., '97, and C. S. Fairchild '63, $20,000 from R. T. Lincoln '64, $10,000 from R. L. Bacon '07, and $5,000 from Norman Davis...
...Harvard's purpose to bring the 11,000 Harvard men of Greater Boston to Cambridge tomorrow and show them the University. Go to the House of Parliament with a Londoner and you are likely to find it as much his first visit as yours. Induce a Maine farmer to climb a well known hill in his neighborhood with you to show you the way, and you may discover he has never set foot before on its premises...
...Senior Smoker--or rather the Senior Smoker, for the class of 1919 will have no other this year. It will be a smoker with all the trimmings that please some and bore others; rows of long wooden tables; plates of cheese and pretzels, movies in which Douglas Fairbanks will climb all ever the wrinkled sheet hung at the end of the Living Room, and the inevitable speeches. It is altogether fitting that the Seniors should celebrate in the manner of their pre-war Freshman and Sophomore years the last evening before they conceal their physical eccentricities and their precarious relations...
Spring time is the time for house-cleaning. With the impetus given by the faculty in cleaning out a large number of near-brainless wonders, and students who failed to climb the academic grade, a mental house-cleaning of every individual should be easy...